First Car Accident

So before last wednesday morning I used to be able to say "Ive never had a ticket, never been pulled over, I am a good driver." Well that has changed a little. I still have never had a ticket, never been given a ticket and I am a good SAFE driver! However Wednesday morning at about 9:30 I got hit by car. I was on my way home from a dentist appointment and was just going along when out of nowhere a car pulled out in front of me and side swiped my entire left side. I was going east and she turned to go east and just took me out on her way. Im fine but my may be a different story. The thing is that when I was trying to get out of the ladies way, or to avoid her hitting me, i jumped a curb and that may have tore the axel up. I have no idea what an axel is but thats what the towing guy said and thats whay dad said. So for now SHMDLY will sleep at the junk yard. Thankfully there were 2 witnesses that said they saw the whole thing and in no way, shape or form was it my fault. If I hadnt had done what I did, the accident would have been a lot worse. Because she hit my side the air bags did not deploy but it was still very scary. If there was anything funny about the whole situation it was the fact that I had just come back from the dentist. I had to have novicane so my mouth was a little "lazy" and everyone thought I had hurt my mouth. I just kept saying "no no I just came back from the dentist!!" So for now all we can do is wait for the insurance companies to duke this out and see what happens with SHMDLY (SHMDLY is my cars name by the way. It stands for See How Much Dad Loves You. Its my liscense plate).